London Borough of Camden

London Borough of Camden
London Borough of Camden
	Lunnon burgh
Coat o airms o London Borough of Camden; Coat o airms	Offeecial logo o London Borough of Camden; Cooncil logo
	; Camden shown athin Greater Lunnon
Sovereign state	Unitit Kinrick
Constituent kintra	Ingland
Region	Lunnon
Ceremonial coonty	Greater Lunnon
Status	Lunnon burgh
Admin HQ	Toun Haw, Judd Street
Incorporatit	1 Aprile 1965
Govrenment
• Teep	Lunnon borough cooncil
• Bouk	Camden London Borough Council
• Leadership	Leader & Cabinet (Labour)
• Mayor	Cllr Abdul Quadir
• MPs	Frank Dobson; Glenda Jackson
• Lunnon Assembly	Brian Coleman AM for Barnet an Camden
• EU Parliament	Lunnon
Aurie
• Tot	8.4 sq mi (21.8 km2)
Aurie rank	317t (o 326)
Population (mid-2014 est.)
• Tot	234,846
• Rank	68t (o 326)
• Ethnicity	44% White Breetish; 3.2% White Erse; 19% Ither White; 1.1% White & Black Caribbean; 0.8% White & Black African; 1.8% White & Asie; 1.9% Ither Mixed; 2.8% Indie; 0.7% Pakistani; 5.7% Bangladeshi; 4% Ither Asie; 1.6% Black Caribbean; 4.9% Black African; 1.7% Ither Black; 2.9% Cheenese; 2.3% Ither
Time zone	GMT (UTC0)
• Summer (DST)	BST (UTC+1)
Polis force	Metropolitan Polis
Wabsteid	www.camden.gov.uk

The London Borough of Camden is a burgh o Lunnon, Ingland, which forms pairt o Inner Lunnon. The soothren reaches o Camden form a pairt o Central Lunnon. The local authority is Camden London Borough Council.^[2]

History[eedit | eedit soorce]

The burgh wis creatit in 1965 frae the umwhile aurie o the metropolitan burghs o Hampstead, Holborn, an St Pancras, which haed formed pairt o the Coonty o Lunnon.^[3] The borough wis named efter Camden Town, which haed gained its name frae Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden in 1795.^[4]

Destricts an environs[eedit | eedit soorce]

For a full leet o destricts an neebourheids o Camden, see Leet o destricts in Camden

The aurie is in the northren pairt o the ceety, reachin frae Holborn an Bloomsbury in the sooth tae Hampstead Heath in the north. Neighbourin auries are the Ceety o Wastmeenster an the Ceety o Lunnon tae the sooth, Brent tae the wast, Barnet an Haringey tae the north an Islington tae the east. It covers aw or pairt o the N1, N6, N7, N19, NW1, NW2, NW3, NW5, NW6, NW8, EC1, EC2, EC4, WC1, WC2, W1 an W9 postcode auries. It conteens pairts o central Lunnon.

References[eedit | eedit soorce]

↑ Data Management and Analysis Group, Greater London Authority, Demography Update October 2007, (2007)
↑ "Camden Council: About the Council". www.camden.gov.uk. Retrieved 2010-07-28.
↑ Vision of Britain - Camden LB
↑ Mills, A., Oxford Dictionary of London Place Names, (2001)